Scott Wrote:
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> I just hate the way Hollywood completely gets it
> wrong, the cliche's are over baked to the point of
> being painfully obvious, the cheese factor is OTT,
> and they tend to always depict the rock music fan
> as some kind of dweeb with no life. I know its
> from a different genre of film, but for me, the
> only Hollywood film that truly captured the kid
> growing up in rock circles or rock per se, was
> ALMOST FAMOUS. Thats probably because of the
> directors direct connection to 70/80's rock
> royalty.

"Almost Famous" is now on the GCSE English syllabus, bizarrely ! My daughter had to teach it to her students last year...I should have got a credit in their results with the amount of background info I gave her !